Chinese vice president winds up official visit to Jamaica

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-02-15 09:56

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica-- Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping left Montego Bay Saturday afternoon for Colombia, winding up his official visit to Jamaica.

Eearlier in the day, Xi attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the Montego Bay Convention Centre, a cooperation project by China and Jamaica, and hailed the reciprocal cooperation between the two countries.

With a project budget of about 52 million US dollars, the convention center will provide approximately 20,000 square meters of rooms for meetings, exhibitions and other events.

Xi arrived in Montego Bay later Friday to continue his official visit to the Caribbean country.

The vice president arrived in Kingston, the capital of Jamaica, on Wednesday for the second leg of his six-nation tour. The trip has taken him to Mexico and will take him to Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil and Malta.

In Kingston, he held talks with Jamaican Governor-General Kenneth Hall, Senate President Oswald Harding, Delroy Chuck, president of the House of Representatives, Prime Minister Bruce Golding and Portia Simpson-Miller, president of Jamaica's People's National Party.